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Loki vs Prometheus - Differences, Use Cases, and Alternatives

Loki and Prometheus are both open source tools. While Loki is a log aggregation tool, Prometheus is a metrics monitoring tool. Loki’s design is inspired by Prometheus but for logs. This blog post compares the two common monitoring tools Loki vs Prometheus, to help you understand their key differences. Log management and metrics monitoring are critical aspects of monitoring a software system effectively.

Status pages can now be displayed in multiple languages

In addition to performing various checks to monitor your site, Oh Dear also offers beautiful status pages. Status pages can now use multiple languages. Using these status pages, you can inform your audience about the status of your service. Here's the beautiful Oh Dear powered status page of the Laravel team. Some of our users have a global, multi-lingual audience. That's why we now added support for a status page to be displayed in multiple languages.

Beginner's Guide to Prometheus Metrics

Over the past decade, Prometheus has become the most prominent open source monitoring tool in the world, allowing users to quickly and easily collect metrics on their systems and help identify issues in their cloud infrastructure and applications. Prometheus was originally developed by SoundCloud when the company felt their metrics and monitoring solutions weren’t meeting their needs.

Visualize real-time mobile app data with the Embrace data source plugin for Grafana

Customers choose Embrace to help mobile development teams build fantastic mobile app experiences. Embrace provides best-in-class mobile insights that help users prioritize, understand, and resolve issues. All of which leads to better development decisions. But in modern software engineering, no team exists in a vacuum.

Harnessing the Power of Nexthink and Qualtrics

Today, enterprise IT teams are being asked to manage thousands of devices, hundreds of applications, dozens of networks, multiple clouds, and so much more. It’s critical for IT to have clear visibility over end user digital experience. Questions such as: are my fellow employees actively using the applications they have been provisioned, and if so, are they satisfied with the experience, are vital pieces of information for driving overall business efficiency.

Take control of monitoring and responding to your production Frontend Javascript errors

We are very lucky on the Rollbar Customer Engineering Team because we get to work with many many development teams. Each team develops, tests, and deploys their applications in their own way. They have chosen different languages and frameworks to solve their particular problem. We learn from each team that we work with, and share these learnings to our Product Design team.